2015 Report details for project: Spearfish Upgrade Programme
| Project name | Spearfish Upgrade Programme - there are 11 reports for this project: 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 |
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| Organisation | MOD (D17) - see all reports for this organisation |
| Report year | 2015 (data is from September 2014) |
| Category | Military - see all reports for this category |
| Description: | SFU Project has 4 key outputs: 1. Single Fuel Create a single fuel weapon to replace the current bi-propellant system; 2. Insensitive Munition (IM) Warhead. Replacement of the current warhead with an IM warhead before the existing warheads start to reach their end of life; 3. Digital Weapon Digitisation of the weapon to deliver the software integrity improvements necessary to comply with the modern standard for systematic safety integrity; 4. Fibre Optic Guide-fibre The replacement guidance link will remove the communication delays between the platform and the weapon, thereby enabling safety and capability improvements and replacing the existing Copper/Cadmium (Cu/Cd) wire. |
| DCA (RAG) | Amber/Green |
| DCA text: | The delivery confidence reflected the ongoing contract negotiations and re-approval for the demonstration and manufacture phases. Since this time, re-approval has been gained and a contract has been placed. |
| Start date | 2008-04-01 |
| End date | 2024-03-31 |
| Schedule text | The latest approval for SFU includes the full manufacture phase and the above project end date reflects the end of manufacture. |
| Baseline | £21.65m |
| Forecast | £23.55m |
| Variance | 8.80% |
| Variance text: | Funding was slipped from 2013/14 to 2014/15 to reflect the delays to the Assessment Phase completion. The Assessment Phase completed in May 2014. |
| Whole Life Cost | £428.89m |
| WLCost text: | The forecast whole life cost for SFU, as presented in the re-approval business case, fall within the budgeted whole life costs above. |
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| Sourcefile | IPA_2015.csv |
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